Commentary

We note last week's extension by the Defence Board, until August 18, of the call-out of the Jamaica Defence Force's (JDF) reserve to allow their continued help in security operations under the state of emergency.

Jamaicans are still dissecting the life, fortunes and misfortunes of the 'President' of Tivoli Gardens.Our little country is making one person the archetype for corruption and crime.

One night last week, I felt a little 'laziness' in my left leg which, initially, I thought was due to my sitting down for too long in a 'bad' position. I also felt a little light-headed. I immediately informed my daughters who looked up the symptoms of a stroke on the Internet. Of the five to six symptoms, I only had one and the 'laziness' only extended to my left leg.

A recent editorial in this newspaper made the valid point that too much was at stake for our Parliament, on our behalf, not to be fully at work and committed to the job of nation-building. Our future right now is on a knife's edge and we need the full capacity of Parliament working together to take us out of the political and socio-economic quagmire in which we find ourselves.

The madness of passengers wilting in unusually long immigration lines at the Sangster International Airport can do no good for Montego Bay's image as a tourist-friendly city.

AMONG THE most interesting, and no doubt welcome, bit of corporate news to have emerged in Jamaica recently would have been this week's announcement by Lascelles Chin that he is about to take his Lasco...

There is at least one belief that Jamaicans across the social spectrum share.This is that, if they wish to be good parents, their main function is to ensure that their children receive a good education.

The Jamaican government needs to clarify an element of the deal with Trinidad and Tobago's Caribbean Airlines for its takeover of Air Jamaica.At one stage, Jamaican officials, including Prime Minister Bruce Golding, had suggested that the Air Jamaica...

The British government, it seems, is a bit like Fagin, the Dickens character in Oliver Twist, who maintained a gaggle of urchins, who were sent out to steal on his account.But the methods of Her Majesty's government are far less subtle than Fagin's crew.

The images of bleached-out skulls and human remains in long-neglected May Pen cemetery have not been greeted with the outrage which they deserve.

Jamaica spends around US$900 million a year importing food. Government researchers suggest perhaps a third of our imports could be replaced or substituted.

Below are edited comments posted by online readers to Monday's feature article on Harcourt Fuller, 'From poverty to PhD'. Wonderful story - This is such a wonderful story, only if the politicians and other influential Jamaicans could read...